Three people -- two of them juveniles -- have been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting during what police describe as a botched robbery at a home in Latrobe, Westmoreland County.

Online dockets show that Zachary McGrath, 20, is charged with first-degree murder, while Colin Gearhart, 17, and Austin Krinock, 17, are charged with second-degree murder in the death of Daniel McNerny, 20. All three suspects are also charged with conspiracy.

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Police said McNerny was shot early Wednesday morning in the front yard of a home on St. Clair Street where he, the suspects and other visitors had been hanging out, drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana.

"This is a very rare situation for around here. Our last homicide was five years ago. This was actually people who knew each other, and something went definitely wrong," Police Chief James Bumar said.

In an affidavit of probable cause, detectives wrote that McGrath, Gearhart and Krinock planned to rob an acquaintance from Allegheny County, identified as John Doe 1, and invited him to the house with another person, identified as John Doe 2.

The shooting happened outside when Krinock and McNerny tried to wrestle the gun away from McGrath, the alleged shooter, who was dressed in all black and had left the house before the John Does arrived, police said.

After McNerny was shot, the suspects waited anywhere from eight to 15 minutes before calling for an ambulance because they hid $12,000 in cash, guns and drugs in a duffel bag inside a shed on the property, police said in the complaint.

Jill Mcilnay, who lives near the shooting scene, said her 17-year-old son heard the gunshots.

"He was still awake, probably doing homework in his room, and he knew what it was," Mcilnay said. "My husband had asked him, 'Did you look?' And he said, 'No, I did not.'" (My son) saw the aftermath when the cops showed up and everything."

The criminal complaint does not say that McNerny knew about the planned robbery, but police specifically point out that McGrath, Gearhart and Krinock had previously discussed it.

All three suspects are scheduled to appear before District Judge Michael Mahady for a preliminary hearing Feb. 1.